Epic Mickey: Rebrushed review – A little too thin(ner)

Back in the mid-to-late ’00s, there was a seeming desire to resurrect the golden era of collectathon platformers. Most of this came via licensed games, with games like SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom kicking off the trend and many more following, but this desire grew thin and, by 2010, the genre was synonymous with cheaply-produced garbage. One game was different, though, and that game was Epic Mickey. Now, it’s back with a ground-up remake, but you wouldn’t really know it.  Epic Mickey Rebrushed feels like it straddles the line between remake and remaster. It’s undoubtedly remade and rebuilt, with gorgeous visuals and some fantastic quality of life changes, but it’s very faithful, almost to a fault. A lot of things that needed an overhaul got it, but just as many didn’t.  Epic Mickey takes place in the Wasteland, a world of “forgotten things” from Disney’s past. A mishap with an enchanted paintbrush releases a monster called Blot into this world, and it, along with the forgotten would-be Dis